{"id":254541,"date":"2025-07-10T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254541\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:53:16","slug":"new-shop-dedicated-to-wildlife-to-open-in-heart-of-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254541\/","title":{"rendered":"New shop dedicated to wildlife to open in heart of Edinburgh\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SHOP dedicated solely to nature, wildlife, and the outdoors, is set to open soon in the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_End,_Edinburgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West End<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wild Fungarium Bookshop is currently setting up in Randolph Place, in a former kitchen showroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Founders Katrina and James are hoping to open the doors by the end of this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unique store will specialise in tools for the outdoors and wildlife-themed gifts, as well as hosting events in the space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WILD_FUNGARIUM_DN01-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"79706c\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #79706c;\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WILD_FUNGARIUM_DN01.jpg\" alt=\"The happy couple got the keys to the shop just recently. (C) @wildfungarium\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-1246582 not-transparent\"  \/><\/a>The happy couple got the keys to the shop just recently. (C) @wildfungarium\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Wild Fungarium is a \u201cnew independent wildlife bookshop with a fantastic selection of nature, wildlife and gardening gifts\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is moving into the former Craighead and Woolf store, just around the corner from Princes Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The building is B listed and, as part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group, has been described as \u201ca significant surviving part of one of the most important and best-preserved examples of urban planning in Britain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soon, it will house items such as books, binoculars, telescopes, gardening tools, seeds, stationery, games, and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wild Fungarium has been founded by couple Katrina and James, who say that they met and fell in love whilst working on a nature reserve in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottish_Highlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Highlands<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their shared love of the natural world resulted in them setting off on their \u201cown wee adventure\u201d to help other wildlife lovers with their new shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair have set up a newsletter for those who want to keep tabs on the summer launch, and continued news from the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As well as gifts, they hope to host book signings and creative wildlife events in the new space, which is currently being renovated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They plan to paint the exterior with Farrow &amp; Ball\u2019s Suffield Green, a popular mid-toned colour which they say will elevate the \u201chistorical architecture and features unique to the front elevation of 13 Randolph Place\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SHOP dedicated solely to nature, wildlife, and the outdoors, is set to open soon in the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,97816,97817,97818,4884,97819,712,16,15,97820],"class_list":{"0":"post-254541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-bookshop","11":"tag-edinburgh-west-end","12":"tag-edinburgh-wildlife-shop","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-randolph-place","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wild-fungarium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114831163798158060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}